Hi Parents,
This week we started new literacy and math centers. The students really seemed to enjoy our new centers.
For literacy centers we are continuing to work on our sight words through sight word bingo on abcya.com and our word families using magnetic letters. For our listening center students are now drawing and writing about their favourite character in the story. We also introduced two new centers. The first is students are making a Winter Book, where they describe how they know it is winter. The second is a center where students are given pictures out of order. They have to cut these pictures out, put them in order and then colour them. The second time they go to this center they will be writing a story based off of the pictures. This is to help them start to sequence stories together.
For our new math centers students are working on practicing their skills for making 10 and addition. The first center is called Find 10 Go Fish, where students are trying to find cards that make 10 (refer to blog post on January 11th for detailed rules).
The second center is a game called Make 10, which is an independent game, where students have four cards in front of them and they have to try and make 10 with the cards. If they are able to make 10 they take those cards off and add in more cards to fill the empty spaces. If they can't make 10 with any of the cards they are allowed to switch out one card from the deck.
The third center is a game called Addition Connect Four, where students roll two dice, add them together and then colour in that number on their board. The first student to connect 4 wins.
The fourth center is Number Puzzles. Students have been given ten frames and 100's charts that have been broken up in different ways. The students have to try and put them together again.
The fifth center is Marble Addition on ABCya.com, where students are given an addition problem to solve. They have marbles that they can use to help them solve the problems, if they need. This game has different levels, which increase in difficulty. Once you pass one level you unlock the next.
Our words of the week this week were: how, now, then, your
Our words of the week next week will be: has, make, want, who
We also did our first making words lesson. We were given strips of folded paper, on each square we wrote a letter. The letters we were given were a,c,c,h,r,s,t. We worked together as class and learned that these seven letters can help us make two letter, three letter, four letter, and five letter words. We made words such as at, art, star trash, chart. We also discovered that when put in the write order these seven letters can make the mystery word Scratch.
In Science we continued our inquiry of colours. We did a variety of mixing colour experiments. The first one was a continued part of a lesson from last week, where students were given two colours and had to make a hypothesis of what colour would come from mixing them together. We then used paint to find out.
The second experiment was what would happen to the three primary colours when mixed with white. The third experiment was what would happen to the primary colours when we mixed them with black. Students wrote their hypothesis, tested it by mixing paint and then wrote a conclusion of what happened. We also learned that colours mixed with white are called a tint and colours mixed with black are called a shade.
We also read the story "Leon the Chameleon" about a chameleon named Leon who always changed to the opposite colour instead of blending in. For example when he sat on a green leaf, we would change to green's complimentary colour of red. The class really enjoyed this story. We also watched the "Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow" and learned about how colour and light are connected!
We finished our read aloud of "Flat Stanley" and will be starting another Flat Stanley read aloud next week.
We also had the first session of our second club for this year! We were very excited about our new clubs!
We worked really hard this week on getting our assembly ready. Everyone did an amazing job today! Well done Room 80! :)
Reminders:
Wednesday January 30th is Fun Lunch. Don't forget to still pack a snack!
Thursday January 31st Byblos Bakery is coming in to make a presentation about nutrition. Students will also get to make a healthy snack. This is in the afternoon so please still pack a morning snack for your child.
Friday February 1st is No School
Thursday February 14th and Friday February 15th is Teacher's Convention, No School
Monday February 18th is Family Day-No School
Thursday February 21st is our field trip to Fort Calgary
Friday, January 25, 2019
Friday, January 18, 2019
January 18th
Hi Parents,
This week in writing we were given a picture prompt to write a story about. We brainstormed ideas all together and then went and wrote our story about a penguin and a polar bear. We came up with some really creative stories!
We also started to discuss the different parts that make up a story, such as characters and setting. We have been reading the story "Flat Stanley" in class and this week we did a character description of Stanley. We used an outline of Stanley and wrote words that described his outer appearance on the outside of the outline and on the inside we wrote words about who is he as a person, such as caring and fun.
Our words of the week this week were: first, get, here, see
Our words of the week next week are: how, now, then, your
We also continued to practice our reading and writing skills through literacy centers.
In math this week we continued to learn about numbers that make 10. We also learned about part, part whole. When we add two numbers together we have two "parts". The "whole" is the number of the two parts added together. We show part, part, whole when we write number sentences. We can also show the part, part, whole of three numbers using the triangle. For example, 6+4-=10 can also be written like..
10
This week in writing we were given a picture prompt to write a story about. We brainstormed ideas all together and then went and wrote our story about a penguin and a polar bear. We came up with some really creative stories!
We also started to discuss the different parts that make up a story, such as characters and setting. We have been reading the story "Flat Stanley" in class and this week we did a character description of Stanley. We used an outline of Stanley and wrote words that described his outer appearance on the outside of the outline and on the inside we wrote words about who is he as a person, such as caring and fun.
Our words of the week this week were: first, get, here, see
Our words of the week next week are: how, now, then, your
We also continued to practice our reading and writing skills through literacy centers.
In math this week we continued to learn about numbers that make 10. We also learned about part, part whole. When we add two numbers together we have two "parts". The "whole" is the number of the two parts added together. We show part, part, whole when we write number sentences. We can also show the part, part, whole of three numbers using the triangle. For example, 6+4-=10 can also be written like..
10
6 4
We practice this altogether with the number 5. We then went and tried on our own with the number 7 and then later with the number 10. We were given blocks to break apart to help us see the two different parts. We also practiced this with dice. We rolled two dice to get our two parts and then added them together to get our whole.
In Science we continued our learning about colour. We discussed how we see colours all around us. We watched the Storybots "Colour" and then brainstormed things in our world that are red, yellow, and blue. Then we drew and labelled our ideas in our visual journals.
We also learned about making a "hypothesis". We learned that hypothesis is another word for a best guess. We made hypotheses for what colour would appear when we mixed together the primary colours. We wrote down our hypotheses and then mixed two different paint colours together to see if our hypothesis was correct.
From: Room 80
Reminders:
We are still doing gymnastics in gym. Please ensure your child is dressed to safety participate. We recommend wearing sport pants/shorts and shirts with no belts or zippers, pull back long hair and jewelry should be left at home.
We are looking for volunteers to help with swimming. Especially male volunteer. If you have your CBE police clearance and are interested in volunteering, please email me.
Friday January 25th we will be performing and leading the assembly along with Mrs. Hardie's and Ms. Deobald's classes. Parents are invited to come and watch. The assembly will be from about 9:15-10:00.
Friday, January 11, 2019
January 11th
Hi Parents,
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!
This week was another busy week in Room 80!
We started off our week by sharing and writing about what we did over the winter break. It sounds like everyone had a wonderful time with family and friends!
In math we learned about making 10 and how to write number sentences. We did shake and spill with ten frames and double sided counters to help us explore the different ways to make 10. We also learned a new game called Find 10 Go Fish. If you want to play at home all you need is a deck of cards. The rules are below:
Find 10 Go Fish
A is worth 1
K is worth 0
Queens and Jacks removed
Deal 5 cards to each player
You are NOT looking to match the same cards. You want cards that add up to 10!
10+K
9+A
8+2
7+3
6+4
5+5
4+6
3+7
2+8
A+9
We also learned about writing number sentences. When adding numbers together we write the two numbers we are putting together first using an addition sign. Then we use the equal sign to show how many there are when we add the numbers together. _____+______=___________ For example: 4+6=10.
We practiced writing number sentence by rolling two dice, adding them together and then writing the corresponding number sentence to match.
Today we took our learning from this week, making 10 and writing number sentences, and combined them together. We used our ten frames and double sided counters to make 10 and then practiced writing all the different addition number sentences for making 10.
This week we reviewed our letter sounds "Sh" and "Ch". We also learned the soft "th" sound, like in the word Thursday and the hard "th" sound, like in the word these.
We also continued our reading and writing through literacy centers.
Our words of the week this week were: by, from, her, if
Our words of the week next week are: first, get, here, see
In science we started our learning of colours. We learned about the colour wheel and created our own colour wheel for our visual journals. We learned that the three primary colours are blue, red and yellow and that we can use primary colours to make new colours. blue+red=purple yellow+red=orange yellow+blue=green.
We also learned that warm colours are red, yellow and orange and that cool colours are blue, purple and green.
We started our gymnastics in unit in Gym this week. Please ensure your child is dressed to safely participate over the next two weeks. We recommend wearing sporty pants/shorts and shirts with no belts or zippers, pull back long hair jewelry should be off and left at home.
From: Room 80
We just received our swim schedule for this year. We will be swimming at Canyon Meadows pool from Monday March 11th to Thursday March 14th. Our swim time is from 1:00-1:45. We will be leaving the school at 12:15 and arriving back at school at 2:30. We are looking for volunteers to help out in the change rooms. We are especially looking for male volunteers! We have three classes going on one bus so volunteers will have to drive themselves to the pool. If you are able to volunteer and have your CBE police clearance please email me if you are able to come help out. If you would like to help out and do not have your police clearance there is still time to get it before we swim, you just need to bring in two pieces of government ID into the office to get the process started.
Wednesday January 16th is Fun Lunch. Please remember to pack your child a snack
Friday January 25th we will be performing and leading the assembly along with Mrs. Hardie's and Ms. Deobald's class. Parents are welcome to come and watch. More information to come about the timing of the assembly. However, it is usually from 9:30-10:00. I will make sure to update everyone on the time as soon as we know for sure.
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!
This week was another busy week in Room 80!
We started off our week by sharing and writing about what we did over the winter break. It sounds like everyone had a wonderful time with family and friends!
In math we learned about making 10 and how to write number sentences. We did shake and spill with ten frames and double sided counters to help us explore the different ways to make 10. We also learned a new game called Find 10 Go Fish. If you want to play at home all you need is a deck of cards. The rules are below:
Find 10 Go Fish
A is worth 1
K is worth 0
Queens and Jacks removed
Deal 5 cards to each player
You are NOT looking to match the same cards. You want cards that add up to 10!
10+K
9+A
8+2
7+3
6+4
5+5
4+6
3+7
2+8
A+9
We also learned about writing number sentences. When adding numbers together we write the two numbers we are putting together first using an addition sign. Then we use the equal sign to show how many there are when we add the numbers together. _____+______=___________ For example: 4+6=10.
We practiced writing number sentence by rolling two dice, adding them together and then writing the corresponding number sentence to match.
Today we took our learning from this week, making 10 and writing number sentences, and combined them together. We used our ten frames and double sided counters to make 10 and then practiced writing all the different addition number sentences for making 10.
This week we reviewed our letter sounds "Sh" and "Ch". We also learned the soft "th" sound, like in the word Thursday and the hard "th" sound, like in the word these.
We also continued our reading and writing through literacy centers.
Our words of the week this week were: by, from, her, if
Our words of the week next week are: first, get, here, see
In science we started our learning of colours. We learned about the colour wheel and created our own colour wheel for our visual journals. We learned that the three primary colours are blue, red and yellow and that we can use primary colours to make new colours. blue+red=purple yellow+red=orange yellow+blue=green.
We also learned that warm colours are red, yellow and orange and that cool colours are blue, purple and green.
We started our gymnastics in unit in Gym this week. Please ensure your child is dressed to safely participate over the next two weeks. We recommend wearing sporty pants/shorts and shirts with no belts or zippers, pull back long hair jewelry should be off and left at home.
From: Room 80
Reminders:
If you have not already signed
and sent back your child's report card envelope please do
so as soon as possible.
We just received our swim schedule for this year. We will be swimming at Canyon Meadows pool from Monday March 11th to Thursday March 14th. Our swim time is from 1:00-1:45. We will be leaving the school at 12:15 and arriving back at school at 2:30. We are looking for volunteers to help out in the change rooms. We are especially looking for male volunteers! We have three classes going on one bus so volunteers will have to drive themselves to the pool. If you are able to volunteer and have your CBE police clearance please email me if you are able to come help out. If you would like to help out and do not have your police clearance there is still time to get it before we swim, you just need to bring in two pieces of government ID into the office to get the process started.
Wednesday January 16th is Fun Lunch. Please remember to pack your child a snack
Friday January 25th we will be performing and leading the assembly along with Mrs. Hardie's and Ms. Deobald's class. Parents are welcome to come and watch. More information to come about the timing of the assembly. However, it is usually from 9:30-10:00. I will make sure to update everyone on the time as soon as we know for sure.
Friday, December 21, 2018
December 21st
Hi Parents,
Another super busy and fun week in Room 80!
This week we reviewed the letter sounds "sh" and "ch" and practiced writing words with these sounds. We also reviewed the words of the week we have learned so far this year.
In math we solved two different problems this week. The first was "You have 13 presents to wrap. You have red, green, and orange wrapping paper. What are the different ways you can wrap the presents. The second problem was "Tom has 11 candy canes. He has red and green candy canes. How many of each colour could he have?
We then shared the strategies we used with each other.
In writing this week we were given a picture prompt and then had to write about it. We also read the story " Snowman at Night"and wrote about what we would do if we were a snowman at night.
We did a variety of guided drawings this week. The students really enjoyed it. We used a website called Art Hub. Here is the link, if you would like to try this at home.
In social studies we finished our landmark flip book. We learned that Canada has many landmarks. The three examples we leaned about were the lighthouse, the wheat fields and the rocky mountains.
We did caroling this week with the whole school, which was really fun and on movie/PJ day we got to watch a movie in the gym with the whole school. We even got popcorn.
Today was the last day for our first sessions of clubs. Students will get a new club in January.
Reminders:
Monday January 7th is a PD day. No School
Tuesday January 8th is the first day back from Winter Break
Thursday January 10th is Crazy Hair Day.
Friday, December 14, 2018
December 14th
Hi Parents,
We had a very busy week getting ready for our Christmas Concert on Wednesday. Everyone did an amazing job! We also had the chance to go and watch the other grade 1-3 concert on Thursday afternoon, we really enjoyed it!
We continued practicing our literacy and math skills through math and literacy centers.
In writing this week we worked on retelling a story. We read the story "The Mitten" by Jan Brett and then retold the story using the sentence starters First, Then, Next, Last. Each day we added a new part to the story and drew a picture to go along with it. We also decorated our own mitten.
We also learned a new letter sound, "Sh".
In Social Studies, we continued our learning about Landmarks. We learned that a landmark of Alberta is the Rocky Mountains. We added this to our flip book of landmarks.
Our words of the week this week were: big, can, little, went
Next week we will be reviewing all the words of the week we have learned so far this year and then in the New Year we will start our words of the week again.
A couple weeks ago we worked with our grade 2 buddies to come up with a description of a snowman and this week we used that description to create our snowman using paper, markers, and chalk pastels.
We also got our gift bags ready this week. We helped sort out all the supplies, decorated our bags and stuffed the bags. They are now all ready to be sent out to our friends at other schools! Thank you to everyone who contributed! :)
Reminders:
Wednesday December 19th Report Cards will be sent home.
Thursday December 20th is PJ and Movie Day. Students are invited to wear their PJ's to school and we will be watching a movie in the gym in the afternoon.
Friday December 21st is Club Friday and the last day of school before Winter Break.
Monday January 7th is a PD day. No School.
Tuesday January 8th is first day of classes after Winter Break.
We had a very busy week getting ready for our Christmas Concert on Wednesday. Everyone did an amazing job! We also had the chance to go and watch the other grade 1-3 concert on Thursday afternoon, we really enjoyed it!
We continued practicing our literacy and math skills through math and literacy centers.
In writing this week we worked on retelling a story. We read the story "The Mitten" by Jan Brett and then retold the story using the sentence starters First, Then, Next, Last. Each day we added a new part to the story and drew a picture to go along with it. We also decorated our own mitten.
We also learned a new letter sound, "Sh".
In Social Studies, we continued our learning about Landmarks. We learned that a landmark of Alberta is the Rocky Mountains. We added this to our flip book of landmarks.
Our words of the week this week were: big, can, little, went
Next week we will be reviewing all the words of the week we have learned so far this year and then in the New Year we will start our words of the week again.
A couple weeks ago we worked with our grade 2 buddies to come up with a description of a snowman and this week we used that description to create our snowman using paper, markers, and chalk pastels.
We also got our gift bags ready this week. We helped sort out all the supplies, decorated our bags and stuffed the bags. They are now all ready to be sent out to our friends at other schools! Thank you to everyone who contributed! :)
Reminders:
Wednesday December 19th Report Cards will be sent home.
Thursday December 20th is PJ and Movie Day. Students are invited to wear their PJ's to school and we will be watching a movie in the gym in the afternoon.
Friday December 21st is Club Friday and the last day of school before Winter Break.
Monday January 7th is a PD day. No School.
Tuesday January 8th is first day of classes after Winter Break.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
December 6th
Hi Parents,
We discovered that we have an Elf on the Shelf in our classroom. He has been moving all around our room and even left us two notes! We named our Elf Oreo! :)
In social studies, we continued our learning from last week about maps and created our very own map of the classroom. We also started learning about landmarks. A landmark is on object or feature that helps you know where you are. They are easily seen and can usually be seen from far away. In Cranston our landmark is the Cranston Windmill. In our community of Calgary, we have two landmarks, which are the Saddledome and Calgary Tower.
We read the story "Goodnight Canada", which helped us learn a little bit more about the provinces of Canada.
We learned about the sounds "ch" "er" and the letter "y" when it makes the long "e" sound at the end of words and practiced sounding out words with these sounds.
In writing, we wrote about our best day ever or what our best day ever would be.
Our words of the week this week were: come, look, me, what
Our words of the week next week will be: big, can, little, went
In math, we continued working on our math centers.
We also went and watched the kindergartens perform Christmas songs for their Christmas Concert. They did an amazing job!
In gym this week, we learned about what our bodies do when we are exercising and did fitness stations.
In music, we have been working really hard on getting our Christmas concert ready for next week. We are getting super excited about performing for our families! :)
Reminders:
If you would like to contribute to our Christmas gift bag initiative to support less fortunate students at two CBE schools please have your gift bags in by Monday December 10th as we will be preparing the bags next week.
Friday December 7th is a PD day. No School.
Monday December 10th is Christmas Sweater day. Students are invited to wear their Christmas sweaters/shirts. If you don't have a Christmas sweater students can wear green and/or red.
Wednesday December 13th is our Christmas Concert. The dress rehearsal is at 1:00pm, no tickets are required. The concert in the evening is at 6:30pm, students were sent home with their 2 tickets today. Doors open at 6:15pm.
Wednesday December 19th Report Cards will be sent home
Thursday December 20th is Movie/PJ day. Students are invited to wear their PJ's to school and we will be watching in the afternoon.
Friday December 21st last day of classes before winter break. It is also Club Friday.
We discovered that we have an Elf on the Shelf in our classroom. He has been moving all around our room and even left us two notes! We named our Elf Oreo! :)
In social studies, we continued our learning from last week about maps and created our very own map of the classroom. We also started learning about landmarks. A landmark is on object or feature that helps you know where you are. They are easily seen and can usually be seen from far away. In Cranston our landmark is the Cranston Windmill. In our community of Calgary, we have two landmarks, which are the Saddledome and Calgary Tower.
We read the story "Goodnight Canada", which helped us learn a little bit more about the provinces of Canada.
We learned about the sounds "ch" "er" and the letter "y" when it makes the long "e" sound at the end of words and practiced sounding out words with these sounds.
In writing, we wrote about our best day ever or what our best day ever would be.
Our words of the week this week were: come, look, me, what
Our words of the week next week will be: big, can, little, went
In math, we continued working on our math centers.
We also went and watched the kindergartens perform Christmas songs for their Christmas Concert. They did an amazing job!
In gym this week, we learned about what our bodies do when we are exercising and did fitness stations.
In music, we have been working really hard on getting our Christmas concert ready for next week. We are getting super excited about performing for our families! :)
Reminders:
If you would like to contribute to our Christmas gift bag initiative to support less fortunate students at two CBE schools please have your gift bags in by Monday December 10th as we will be preparing the bags next week.
Friday December 7th is a PD day. No School.
Monday December 10th is Christmas Sweater day. Students are invited to wear their Christmas sweaters/shirts. If you don't have a Christmas sweater students can wear green and/or red.
Wednesday December 13th is our Christmas Concert. The dress rehearsal is at 1:00pm, no tickets are required. The concert in the evening is at 6:30pm, students were sent home with their 2 tickets today. Doors open at 6:15pm.
Wednesday December 19th Report Cards will be sent home
Thursday December 20th is Movie/PJ day. Students are invited to wear their PJ's to school and we will be watching in the afternoon.
Friday December 21st last day of classes before winter break. It is also Club Friday.
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